The internet is really cool. You can learn all about psychology and mental health diagnoses,

but you aren't learning it in any order, which means that you aren't getting the first lecture in every psych class,

which means it's more likely that you'll self-diagnose in a way that might be harmful for you.

In this video, you're going to learn all about how trendy psychology may be convincing you

that you're broken and how to prevent yourself from getting sucked along with psych

trends.

But first, let me tell you a story.

When I took abnormal psych in college, I had a brilliant professor who started off the class

by asking us all to take a personalized assessment, kind of like the inkblot test.

In order to get a better idea of the personalities of the students in the class, the teacher asked us all to draw a tree, a house, and a person on a single sheet of paper.

We were told to turn them in and that in the next class period,

we would all be given a personalized interpretation of what our drawings said about us.

So I did it! I drew my tree house in person, I turned it in,

and I wondered what the professor would deduce about me.

When we came back to class the next time, we were

all handed our tree house person in a yellow envelope, and inside was a short paragraph explaining

what this drawing said about my childhood and my view of the world. We all took a moment to

absorb what we were reading, and then the teacher asked us to share what we thought about

the comments, but specifically teacher asked us to share what we thought about the comments,

but specifically asked us not to share any details from the paragraph we were given.

One by one, the other students expressed amazement at how accurate their description was,

and how true to their life it was. Many of them said, this paragraph describes my

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